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Simon Willison’s Weblog 1 month ago 21 ● 5 sources
OpenAI’s research team is using coding agents, with a new internal research-focused piece that discusses recursive self-improvement and how it connects to their current work. The article points to a late-July 2026 jump in AI spend per researcher. That spending increase is presented as the driver of faster internal research acceleration, enabling broader agentic engineering adoption across the team.
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15 October 2026
Anthropic used its pre-IPO moment to put hard numbers behind the AI business model: it reported $16.8 billion in Q3 revenue, up 45% sequentially, and said it reached adjusted profitability for the first time. That matters because it reframes what “scaling” looks like for the next wave of investors—less guesswork, more operating reality—at the same time the company is briefing markets ahead of an expected November listing.
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